The Puritan
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848 - 1907
The Puritan
inscribed ·THE·PVRITAN· (along the base); inscribed AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS, stamped 1303 and COPYRIGHT BY / AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS / M·D·C·C·C·X·C·I·X· (on the base)
bronze
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1886; this example cast in ⛦or after 1899.
🦋We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance cataloguing this lot.
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Bicentennial Exhibition: 200 Years of American Sculpture, 1976, pl. 18, p. 81, illustration of anoღther cast
John H. Dryfhout, The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, ꦗHanover, New Hampshire, 1982, fig. 125-11, p. 164, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Carved and Modeled: American Sculpture, 1810-1940, 1982, no. 22, pp✃. 46-47, illustration🌟 of another cast
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Cast in the Shadow: Models for Public Sculpture in America, 1985-86, no.𒀰 26, pp. 6ꦑ4-66, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board Building, Augustus Saint-Gaudens American Sculptor: From the Collection of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, 1992, no. 24, p. VIII
Exh. Cat., Toulouse, France, Musée des Augustins & Blérancourt, Musée franco-américain du Château de Blérancourt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens: A Master of American Sculpture, 1999, no. 18, p. 119, illuඣstration of🦹 another cast
Thayer Tolles, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, New York, 1999, no. 123, pp. 285-87, illustratio🔥n of another cast
Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, no. 27♛, pp𝄹. 68-69, illustration of another cast
Henry Duffy, ed., In Homage to Worthy Ancestors: The Puritan, The Pilgrim, Warner, New Hampshire, 2011
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amer♛ican Wing, 2003-23 (on loan)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009
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